1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

FOOTBALL.SPECIAL RULES.1. The competition shall be under the control and management of the Sub-Committee for Football appointed by the Swedish Football Association. The Committee’sdecision on all matters relating to the competition shall be final and withoutappeal. The Committee shall appoint Referees and Linesmen in all matches.2. The competition shall be played according to the rules and regulations ofthe Swedish Football Association, which correspond to the Laws of the Game aspromulgated by the Federation Internationale de Football Association.The competition shall be confined to amateurs in accordance with the followingdefinition.a) An amateur player is one who has never:Competed for a money prize, or received any remuneration or considerationof any sort above his necessary hotel and travelling expenses actually paid in connectionwith football matches;b) Engaged in, assisted in, or taught in any branch of sport as a means ofpecuniary gain;c) Been registered as a professional;d) Sold, pawned, hired out, or exhibited for payment any prize won in a competiton.3. Each National Football Association belonging to a nation recognized as suchby the International Olympic Committee and affiliated to the International FootballFederation (Federation Internationale de Football Association) is entitled to send fourteams.4. The competition shall be conducted in the following manner.The competing teams shall be drawn in couples. These teams shall compete,and the winners shall be drawn again in couples, and so on, until the competitionis completed.5. Each team shall compete in its National Association colours. Where thecolours of the two competing teams are the same, one of the teams shall play insuch colours as may be determined by the Swedish Sub-Committee for Football.6. Players of each team may be changed during the series of matches.7. The duration of a match shall be one hour and a half.8. Should a match result in a draw, an extra half hour shall be played. Shouldthe match result in a draw after it has been played for two hours, it must be replayedas the Committee may determine.9. The dimensions of the field of play shall be: length 115 yards (105 metres,breadth 75 yards ( metres).10. Laws of the Game. The laws to be followed will be those fixed by theFédération Internationale de Football Association for the season 1911/12.65 Fifth Olympiad.1025